Franz Grillparzer Quotes

The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

You don't have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don't need any special equipment - that's the beauty of it.

Even if it's such a lowly art as TV, you've got to get stuff off your chest, because that's what makes something different and original, your particular take on stuff.

The real thing creates its own poetry.

The highest condition of art is artlessness.

Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

A good poem has its own life. It's like bringing a child into the world. You, the poet, birthed the child, but the child will surprise you continually. I think a work of art has its own aliveness, its own future.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.

If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it.

...if I can do it, it's not art.

The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one.

I've been joking that if Madonna taught us anything, you've got to reinvent yourself. I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances. I've tried to take a chance with every film I've done - I've never done it the easy way, and I think that's because that's what excites me, is making as big a mountain as I can in front of me, and just trying to mount it.

There are so many rules in the art world. I don't like rules and I break them all the time. I don't care if people think I'm overexposed. What I care about is if I'm going to run out of energy. Overexposure is only a problem if you are drained of energy and cannot come up with new ideas. Every artist has to recognize that and know when to stop for a moment.

It doesn't matter what it is, it doesn't matter if you have training or a background in it. Just create something, and lend a piece of yourself to that art.

In art there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists

I feel that any man that tries, any man that comes out with something we like, is a good man. A man doesn't have to be Leonardo Da Vinci to be sincere.

I'm done with girls on rocks! I've painted them for thirteen years and I could paint them and sell them for thirteen more. That's the peril of the commercial art game. It tempts a man to repeat himself. it's an awful thing to get to be a rubber stamp. I'm quitting my rut now while I'm still able.

The great artist takes what he needs.

Own what you are, and I mean whether that's art, or whether that's fashion, or whether that's music, or whether that's acting, or whether that's politics, or whether that's literature; it's own what you are, and grab it, and, you know, be as prolific as possible.

Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.

A poem can use anything to talk about anything.

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.